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From: Don Varnau (don_04[at]varnau[dot]org)
Date: 01/03/05


Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:48:48 -0600

Hi,
Did you run CWShredder from http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip ? It
will remove some CWS variants better than Spybot or Ad-aware.

Did you use the VX2 Cleaner add-on with Ad-aware?

Don
[MS MVP- IE/OE]

"Bob Simon" <bsimon@xtnex.net> wrote in message
news:tfjgt05289n3lb3te5dq0uukg7r3rg8mgf@4ax.com...
> Bert,
> Housecall ran clean. Isn't this considered to be a good online virus
> scan?
>
> Ad-Aware found the the files I mentioned earlier are from vendor VX2,
> but it could not remove them either.
>
> Spybot found CoolWWWSearch but could not remove that either. I ran
> the SmartKiller MiniRemoval tool but it reported that "v1/v2 has not
> been found on your system."
>



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